Archive | June, 2011

Next Stop is White Coat Ceremony for Imi Ho’ola “grads”

Pictured left to right are Imi Ho’ola graduates Kyle Watanabe, Kaimana Chow, Aldrich Ricalde, Emmanuel de Jesus, Genia Taitano and Steven Gonsalves. The next stop is the White Coat Ceremony for six graduates of the Imi Ho’ola (“Those who seek to heal”) Post-Baccalaureate Program at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). [...]

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JABSOM’s Virginia Tanji Elected Chair of National Library of Medicine Board

Virginia “Ginny” Tanji, Librarian V, MSLS, MEd, Director of the Health Sciences Library at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), has been elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  Her appointment comes as national library prepares to celebrate its [...]

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VIDEO-Dr. Shiramizu important part of Hawai’i Center for AIDS Team

Dr. Bruce Shiramizu brings energy and experience with him every day, as he goes to work alongside team-members at the the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Hawai’i Center for AIDS. Dr. Shiramizu has been researching the virus for more than 20 years. This week, interviewed by Hawai’i News Now, Dr. Shiramizu talked about how people [...]

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The Hawai’i Center for AIDS finds age-related complications among patients with HIV

Thirty years after its discovery, AIDS can be slowed, not cured. HIV medicines allow people infected with the virus to live longer, healthier lives, but researchers at the UH Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) are finding increased age-related complications among AIDS sufferers, too. “Our research is showing higher rates of diabetes, heart [...]

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